Showing papers by "William Whittaker published in 1987"
01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: Shafer and Whittaker as discussed by the authors described the vision and navigation for the Carnegie-Mellon NAVLAB as a testbed for mobile robot navigation and demonstrated its effectiveness in the field of autonomous vehicle navigation.
Abstract: 1 I: Introduction Steve Shafer and Red Whittaker 3 Introduction 3 Accomplishments 5 Personnel 6 Publications 6 II: NAVLAB: An Autonomous Navigation Testbed 7 K. Dowling, ft Guzikowski, J. Ladd, H. Pangels, J. Singh, and W. Whittaker III: Vision and Navigation for the Carnegie-Mellon NAVLAB 53 C. Thorpe, M. Hebert, T. Kanadef and S. Shafer IV: The CMU System for Mobile Robot Navigation 81 Y. Goto and A. Stentz
6 citations
01 Mar 1987
TL;DR: It is argued for spatial reasoning as a basic cognition mode for robots operating in unpredictable work environments and a three-level architecture for modeling and planning from range data is presented.
Abstract: This paper presents a framework for autonomous robots that reason from range data. We argue for spatial reasoning as a basic cognition mode for robots operating in unpredictable work environments and present a three-level architecture for modeling and planning from range data. Two implementations, robotic excavation with sonar ranging and mine navigation with laser ranging, illustrate the techniques and provide two experiences to evaluate the architecture.
3 citations